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Independent publisher based in Wivenhoe, Ess*x. Available now: Est: Collected Reports From East Anglia and The Migrant Waders.

Dunlin Press is a new independent publishing house based in the artistic community of Wivenhoe, Ess*x. Its focus is emerging writers and visual artists whose work is intelligent, thought-provoking and beautiful, and which for various reasons might prove difficult to place with more established or commercial publishers. Dunlin Press aims to publish works of fiction and non-fiction, poetry, photo-es

says, illustration and more. Its first book, set to be published towards the end of 2014, is a collection of fiction, non-fiction and psychogeography from and about East Anglia. Dunlin Press is operating as a not-for-profit enterprise.

28/05/2025

Very dull, but yes, Martin has had his Insta account hacked and can't currently access it. And yes, he's still an editor and writer, not a bitcoin billionaire!

27/05/2025

In non book related news, bucolic scenes yesterday as we went for a walk while the local cows looked on...
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17/05/2025

Available via the Dunlin Press shop (see bio), The Home Recording Handbook is a dispatch from the sidelines and a love letter to popular song.

It’s a brief guide to the pleasures and perils of recording music at home, by the musician, songwriter and founder of the cult English lo-fi group, the Cleaners from Venus, Martin Newell = a leading figure in the history of cassette culture and godfather of DIY music-making.

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11/05/2025

Great launch of The Home Recording Handbook by Martin Newell at on Friday. Thanks for having us!
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07/05/2025

Join us this Friday, 9th May, in Wivenhoe for our launch of The Home Recording Handbook by Martin Newell

Independent local bookshop Wivenhoe Books are hosting us and our esteemed author for an evening of anecdotes, chat, and song!

Festivities start at 7 pm.

You can buy tickets via the bookshop link in our link tree (see bio)

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28/04/2025

Young Master Newell, holding a rather special guitar. Turned out OK, didn't it?!

The Home Recording Handbook, by Martin Newell, gives first-time insight into how musical instruments, kit, songs and experiences, shaped his lo-fi sound and that of his band, the Cleaners from Venus.

Get it at dunlinpress.bigcartel.com £12

14/04/2025

We have a Wivenhoe launch of Home Recording Handbook with our friends at

Date: 9 May
Time: 7pm
Tickets: £6 from wivenhoebooks.com

See you there?

09/04/2025

A lesson from Martin Newell about home recording:

"When buying headphones, or ‘cans’ as some call them, maybe spend a little bit more time reading the punter reviews. Again, don’t pay too much attention to the audio mags but do give them a glance if they don’t seem too boring. Get some cans that suit you."

And remember, Martin Newell's Home Recording Handbook is not a home recording handbook!

Available to pre-order now at dunlinpress.bigcartel.com
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03/04/2025

Quite an important guitar, all said and done. The clue is in the name on the sticker... Here, photographed recently on the kitchen floor of Wivenhoe HQ.

Pre-sales of The Home Recording Handbook by are going well. Want one? They're in our shop at dunlinpress.bigcartel.com and over at thecleanersfromvenus.bandcamp.com

Publication date: 2 May.

28/03/2025

NEW BOOK!! We are delighted to announce that we will be publishing The Home Recording Handbook by Martin Newell - out on 2 May but available to pre-order now at our dunlinpress.bigcartel.com shop and at Martin's bandcamp page https://thecleanersfromvenus.bandcamp.com/music

As the blurb on the back cover says:

“This is not a home recording handbook,” says Martin Newell of his unhandily-titled The Home Recording Handbook. Instead, it’s the long-overdue completion of a book that was begun and then lost in 1983. It’s a set of salty anecdotes from a life working in pop music. It’s a broadside to the music business. It’s a short inventory of inexpensive musical tools. It’s a ‘when not to’ and ‘why not to’ rather than a ‘how to’. It’s a dispatch from the sidelines and a love letter to popular song. It’s a brief guide to the pleasures and perils of recording music at home, by the musician, songwriter and founder of the cult English lo-fi group, the Cleaners from Venus, Martin Newell – a leading figure in the history of cassette culture and godfather of DIY music-making. It does happen to contain some tips on home recording. But it’s probably not a handbook.

Go reserve your copy!

25/02/2025

Showcasing three of our books, Scarecrow by , Lessons for an Apprentice Eel Catcher by Alex Toms and Est, Collected Reports from East Anglia, our first anthology.

The debut collection of poems from transfigures contemporary landscapes of the city and the countryside in an unsettling flux of fractured narrative time and atomised human agency.

In Alex Toms debut collection she introduces us to a troupe of curious characters to explore themes of love, womanhood and s*x.

A journey through the landscapes of East Anglia, Est is a unique collection of prose, poetry and reportage that spans the Wash to the Thames and the Fens to the German Sea

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21/02/2025

Whose handwriting is this? And whose life was changed by this Sony Portastudio?

Answers in our next book, out in April.

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Dunlin Press is an independent publishing house based in the artistic community of Wivenhoe, Ess*x. Its focus is emerging writers and visual artists whose work is intelligent, thought-provoking and beautiful, and which for various reasons might prove difficult to place with more established or commercial publishers. Dunlin Press publishes works of fiction and non-fiction, poetry, photo-essays, illustration and more.